Laura Herberg
ReporterLaura Herberg is a reporter for 101.9 WDET, telling stories about people inhabiting the Detroit region and the issues that affect us here. She won a Regional Murrow Award for best Hard News story (Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio) in 2020 and she was named the Michigan Associated Press Best Reporter for radio broadcasting in 2020, 2018 and 2017. In 2012, she was awarded a SoundCloud Fellowship for her project, “Listen to Detroit.” She also is the creator of Complete Me, a podcast with only three episodes about how she has trouble completing tasks.
Before becoming a radio reporter, Laura worked, among other things, as a buser, a telemarketer, a canvasser and a magician’s assistant. She is originally from the Seattle area but lived in five other cities before settling on Detroit in 2010. She’s now a proud homeowner in Highland Park, Mich., a tiny city located inside Detroit.
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The Detroit City Council is holding a public hearing on Tuesday on a proposed “Right to Counsel” ordinance.
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Most of the 17-hundred Afghans who’ve arrived in Michigan between September and March have been permanently housed
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The Auburn Hills City Council voted 5-2 in favor of opting out of the SMART bus system at its meeting Monday night.
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Auburn Hills City council decided in a workshop earlier this month to move toward opting out of SMART, instead the city would create its own weekday-only transit system for seniors and people with disabilities
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Some Detroit retirees are asking the City to use American Rescue Plan Act funds to send them a checkA group of Detroit retirees has created a petition on change.org that asks the city to pay them a one-time check of 14-hundred dollars.
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A handful of people gathered Thursday in the parking lot of a Detroit Meijer to say goodbye to the 100-year-old Michigan State Fairgrounds Coliseum.
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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is encouraging people to get out in nature and move on January 1st.
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The Red Cross says it’s experiencing historically low blood supply levels.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency says it has issued more than 150 million dollars in assistance to residents in Southeast Michigan.
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Detroit's general election is next week and will see 3 new proposals on the ballot.